Alle ved, at sukker ikke er godt for dig. Men det kan mere end give huller i tænderne 🍬
I 1919 blev Boston udsat for en af historiens mest klistrede katastrofer. Da en gigantisk tank med sukkermasse eksploderede blev alt indholdet nemlig sendt ud over byen som en stor, brun tsunami. Og det var alt andet end sødt.
På få minutter blev byen omdannet til et dødeligt desserthelvede. Bygninger styrtede sammen, personer blev fanget i den klistrede masse og store dele af byen blev dækket af et tykt lag brun sukkermasse. Og selvom det lyder meget Looney Tunes-agtigt, så vil vi gerne pointere, at det faktisk overhovedet ikke var særlig sjovt.
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Dagens Øl: Seagull 67 Icelandic Beer og Espiga Cervesa Blonde Ale
Skip til cirka 04:30 for historiens start
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Kilder:
- Dwyer, Dialynn: "What people saw and felt in the first moments of Boston’s deadly Great Molasses Flood", Boston.com, 2019
https://www.boston.com/news/history/2019/01/13/first-hand-accounts-great-boston-molasses-flood/ - Knight, Ellen: "Winchester Man Escaped Boston's Great Molasses Flood", Winchester History Online: https://www.winchester.us/DocumentCenter/View/6899/Molasses-Flood?bidId=
- Botros, Ahmed, Farag og Hassen: "Study on Ethanol Production from Sugar Cane Molasses by Using Irradiated Saccharomyces cervisiae", 3. Conference on Radiation Sciences and Applications, 2012
https://inis.iaea.org/records/7v36w-cs651 - "100 years ago today: Molasses crashes through Boston's North End", Archives and Records Management, Boston.gov, 2019 (opd. 2025):
https://www.boston.gov/news/100-years-ago-today-molasses-crashes-through-bostons-north-end - Park, Edward: "Without Warning, Molasses in January Surged Over Boston", Smithsonian, 1983:
https://edp.org/molpark.htm - Bologna og Garcia: "100 Years Later: Lessons From Boston's Molasses Flood Of 1919", Radio Boston, 2019:
https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2019/01/15/1919-molasses-flood - Poleo, Stephen: "Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919", 2003:
https://archive.org/details/darktide00step - Jabr, Ferris: "The Science of the Great Molasses Flood", Scientific American, 2013:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molasses-flood-physics-science/
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